About this place
We have reached the sanctum: Berggasse 19. Sigmund Freud lived and worked in this exact apartment building from 1891 until his forced flight from the Nazis in 1938. It was in these high-ceilinged rooms that he wrote his masterpiece 'The Interpretation of Dreams,' hosted the Wednesday Psychological Society, and treated his patients on the world-famous couch. The museum today preserves the space beautifully, though the original furniture is largely in London, leaving a powerful 'museum of absence' that deeply evokes the loss caused by the Holocaust.
Key facts
- 47 years — Freud lived, worked, and raised his family at this exact address
- 1938 year — Freud fled the Nazi regime to London on the Orient Express in June
- 1899 year — Freud published 'The Interpretation of Dreams', written in this apartment
📍 Berggasse, 1090, Wien